Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 10: Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928–1931

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Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers From Prison

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

action responsibility

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Cost of Discipleship

self-control

The church...is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
The church...is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer No Rusty Swords: Letters, Lectures and Notes 1928-1936

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Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

God

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Cost of Discipleship

judging

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

gratitude Giving

Possessions delude the human heart into believing that they provide security and a worry-free existence, but in truth they are the very cause of worry. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Possessions delude the human heart into believing that they provide security and a worry-free existence, but in truth they are the very cause of worry.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions

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Music...will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground-bass of joy alive in you. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
Music...will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground-bass of joy alive in you.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

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The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but the fact that it is the inspiration of life and hope when others give in; it enables a man to hold his head high when everything seems to be going wrong; it gives him strength to sustain reverses and yet to claim the future for himself instead of abandoning it to his opponent. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer quote.
The essence of optimism is not its view of the present, but the fact that it is the inspiration of life and hope when others give in; it enables a man to hold his head high when everything seems to be going wrong; it gives him strength to sustain reverses and yet to claim the future for himself instead of abandoning it to his opponent.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison

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